Hey,
I know their have been a lot of threads about changing the background picture of the Login Screen, but i havent seen anything on how to actually edit the login screen?
Say for example, getting rid of the user picture or moving the user picture?

My question is, how would you customize it?

Hi,
you know, the easiest way to edit the windows login screen is to use TuneUp utilities or another app, e.g. "Logon Screen"
http://www.chip.de/downloads/Logon-Screen_44776604.html
But I don't know how to change the position of the user image.

Google it and you will find the result.

I have googled it already, the only thing that comes up is how to change the background picture and the transparency of the buttons. But that's not what I want to do

If I'm correct, you have to modify "authui.dll" file in "System32" folder. That is all of the login/lockscreen stuff. If you want to change the background picture, that should be one of the files in the "Branding" folder.

There is a great program that I helped Julien Manici to create and update that changes the background and has great features related to that, but we haven't figured out how to move the user picture around. It can be found at http://www.julien-manici.com

well, i know that the authui.dll plays a part in the login screen, not sure how much or whether it controls the other features that could be used to completely change it

I saw something the other day which looked like it changed the login screen completely to a more Mac ish interface, but i didnt take much notice at the time and have forgotton where i found it now.

windows 7 toolkit 1.8 orbit30 google it done

this is just to activate windows though...

nope it has just what he needs

ok i have looked around have a look at this website probably your best bet >>> http://www.wincustomize.com/ <<<

there's a logon changer program easy to use,
It's called Logon Changer but it can only change the images

Yeh the Wincustomize website only has images for the stardock programs. It wont change the layout at all

You would need to know some DirectUI, as the logon screen look is programmed in DirectUI.

Thanks, just had a little look and found a program called Login Screen Workshop ( i think) and this does most of what i wanted, its easier because its got a GUI but theres no preview screen so its fidly

Try WinBubbles, has everything you need to tweak Windows.
It also has a preview.

I'm curious, using any of those programs would you be able to actually customize the size of the logo? For example to make your own "layout"?

easy with authui.dll with Hack Res or restorator

Here is a pretty decent tool I found while googling: http://bcubing.deviantart.com/art/Windo ... -141615089
That should speed up the process of you wanting to customize the login screen.

Why not good old resource hacker?